It’s All A Dance Possibly a lot of you have been affected by the US 2016 election of Donald Trump and his subsequent inauguration and may be doing a dance finding your equilibrium while being buffeted by an onslaught of overwhelming information on new developments. I have found my dormant activist heart renewed and am finding my own way…

An Inauguration Spoiler Alert! I am usually an independent or Green Party voter. This year I registered Democrat so I could vote for Bernie. I strive to maintain an attitude and language of inclusiveness so this post is in no means meant to support one political ideology over another. I believe that all viewpoints have something of value and underneath…

Wooo Wee!! Are we in for a wild ride or what? The recent election and resulting current chaos is presenting us with some real challenges on all levels. I bet you are feeling challenged in all sorts of ways like I am. This feels like a wake-up call, where we are asked to show up with all the integrity and…

As you may know, my tarot mission is to make tarot a living force in my life and those of my students and clients. An Embodied tarot reading is a powerful way to do this. The Living Tarot Oracle™ incorporates this practice. This blog post is an example of how I do an embodied tarot reading, a process I refer to…

I have been traveling a lot the past few years and haven’t done as much hiking in the mountains as I usually do in the summers. I live in the beautiful area of Southwest Colorado where the high mountains meet the high deserts of the Ancient Puebloans, formally referred to as the Anasazi. Each season brings opportunities to explore different…

I like to say that Tarot can show us a picture of where we are in our lives and provide us with a map to get us where we want to go. One way to do that is to work with your Tarot profile using the numerology of your birthdate and figuring which major arcana cards are associated with it. One…

Most of my life I have perceived the world I move through symbolically. At age 15 I began working with my dreams as messages from my unconscious self at a time when I barely had an understanding of what that meant. Learning to read Tarot and “unpack” the messages the images and stories it contains was a natural progression for me….

A long time ago, in the misty redwoods of Northern California, I finally met a woman that I’d been hearing about for years, Carrie Paris. There was electricity in the air as we excitedly compared notes on how we’d been wanting to meet each other and here we were! That began a long friendship that stretched across the ocean while…

One challenge I face as a professional tarot reader is in dealing with a common belief that tarot is a form of fortune telling and a lot of people are hesitant to learn “what’s going to happen to them?” While it’s true that some tarot readers do consider themselves fortunetellers and able to predict the future, that approach has never…